Many of Grandma's girls and boys want to learn to play chess, so we decided to make our very own chess pieces.You can make these, too! They are DIY chess pieces!Come make them with us! They are so much fun to create!

We need 16 -3/4 inch bolts for pawns4 -1 1/2 inch bolts for bishops, 8 -1 1/4 bolts (or any size you want) for castles and horses4 -1 3/4 bolts for the queens and kings We also need lots of different washers, nuts, etc. to make each piece different from the others.And we also need a black indelible marker to paint the pieces for the black set!

Now comes the fun part. We have to decide what our pawns will look like, and make 16 of them identical. What should we make them look like? This? Or this?Next we make the castles. Don't these look like castles?

How about our horses?And our queens and kings? Wow, this is lots of fun!

And here are our chess pieces! Yours will have your very own look to it, too!Please share pictures of your chess pieces with us! We would love to see them!